August 24, 2011

25,000 U.S. Yearbooks Added to Ancestry.com

ANCESTRY.COM EXPANDS U.S. SCHOOL YEARBOOK COLLECTION TO INCLUDE MORE THAN 150 MILLION RECORDS OF RELATIVES’ SCHOOL DAYS

PROVO, UTAH – August 24, 2011 – Ancestry.com , the world’s largest online
family history resource, today announced a massive expansion of the world’s most extensive searchable collection of U.S. school
yearbooks online.
The company has added nearly 25,000 new yearbooks to the collection,
which now totals over 35,000 and carries 155 million records
encompassing the years 1884 to 2009. The
U.S. Yearbook Collection includes close to seven million images from thousands of U.S. high schools, junior highs, academies, colleges and universities.

The U.S. Yearbook Collection
provides candid photos and insight into a relative’s appearance and
extracurricular activities during their formative school years. The
information and
images contained in the collection also reveal insightful historical
and cultural trends about fashion, style, politics, sports and social
beliefs over the past 125 years of U.S. history. With the addition of
the new records, family historians can more easily
find what their current family members and ancestors looked like as
youngsters and discover the types of activities in which they were
involved. This collection can help tell a more complete story by
offering rich details and providing context about the time
their family members were in school.

"Our school years are often some of the most memorable times of our lives,”
said Josh Hanna, Ancestry.com Executive Vice President. “With
the additions we’ve made to our U.S. School Yearbook collection,
millions of Americans can experience their family members’ school years
vicariously through the photos and records contained
in this important collection. The details they include are often
difficult to find, and while you’re searching, you might just find a
famous classmate.”

4 comments:

Photos are great. But some times the things we said or did before our brains were fully developed can be a little embarrassing now. I guess we should take that into consideration when looking at Grandpa when he was young.

Hopefully they've taken better care with indexing them. My past experiences have had me going through whole yearbooks page by page, because words like "phi", "beta", or "kappa" were indexed but not all the surnames. Frustrating!

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